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When George Zimmerman was acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, theater producer Beth Marshall was angry. So the Orlando resident began working on "The Trayvon Martin Project," a three-part series examining issues that arose from Martin's death. Part 1, which comprises six roughly 10-minute plays and audience discussion, opens Friday. "After the verdict came out, I knew immediately I wanted to do this project," she said. "I knew then that art was going to be representative of my voice in this." Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old, was killed in Sanford by Neighborhood Watch volunteer Zimmerman. The trial drew national attention and raised...

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When George Zimmerman was acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, theater producer Beth Marshall was angry.
So the Orlando resident began working on "The Trayvon Martin Project," a three-part series examining issues that arose...

A coalition of civil-rights groups led by Equality Florida, the ACLU, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and others is planning to eventually challenge the state's 2008 constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage.
But "eventually"...

There's only one well-known work in the lineup for Beth Marshall Presents' first full season — and that's deliberate. It's part of “staying true to our mission of elevating original works to the next level and bringing them alive to the mainstream

With New York becoming the sixth state to allow gay marriage and Maryland headed the same direction, Religion Link has complied a series of links to stories about the battle taking place in Congress and among congregations over gay marriage. “For religi

On Tuesday, February 7, 2012, California’s Proposition 8 was declared unconstitutional in a 2-1 vote by the Ninth Circuit Appeals court. Prop 8 was a ballot measure during the 2008 election that was meant to stop gay and lesbian couples from getting married i

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Throughout American history, Congress has often been at odds with the president. But so far, the legislative body has not turned to the third government branch — the judiciary — with a lawsuit claiming the chief executive violated the Constitution.
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In the hours after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down decisions in U.S. vs. Windsor and Hollingsworth vs. Perry, health groups chimed in support of the rulings -- and gay marriage.
American Psychological Assn. president Donald Bersoff said

SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers leading the fight for gay marriage in California have been quietly preparing state officials for the possibility the U.S. Supreme Court might dismiss the case on a technicality next month without deciding the fate of Proposition 8....

They've been engaged since the end of 2009, but on Wednesday morning Kristen Bell proposed to Dax Shepard in celebration of the Supreme Court's decisions on the Defense of Marriage Act and Prop. 8. (Yes, he popped the question the first time.)
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The authors of Proposition 8 denounced the immediate resumption of gay marriages in California after Friday's decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to greenlight same-sex weddings immediately.
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